The German government has transferred 16,038.7 BTC ($915.3M) to exchanges and market makers today. They have transferred a total of 26,071 BTC ($1527.9M) since they started selling coins on June 19, and there are currently 23,788 BTC ($1.32B) in the address.

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July 5 Options Data

- 18,000 BTC options are about to expire with a Put Call Ratio of 0.65, a Maxpain point of $61,500 and a notional value of $1 billion.

- 164,000 ETH options are due to expire with a Put Call Ratio of 0.36, a Maxpain point of $3,350 and a notional value of $470 million.

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On July 3, a 3-year-old boy was kidnapped in a shopping mall in Hong Kong. The boy was extorted for 660k USDT and his parents were asked to download Telegram and buy 660k USDT from an offline OTC store. In the early morning of July 4, the police arrested two people and rescued the boy.

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Crypto-friendly bank Evolve Bank admitted that 33 TB of user data was stolen a month ago by a Russian ransomware gang Lockbit after an employee accidentally clicked a malicious link. The stolen data included personally identifiable information (PII), such as name, address, social security and tax ID number, date of birth, account balance, and email address. The data came from 155,586 accounts related to Bitfinex, Nomad, and Copper, among others.

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BingX announced an new phase in its partnership with Chelsea. Starting from the 2024/25 Premier League season, BingX will transition from being a Sleeve Partner to the Official Training Wear Partner of Chelsea’s men’s team, one of the world’s most prestigious football clubs.

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Binance announced that it has added Monitoring tags to the following tokens, warning that these tokens may be delisted: Balancer (BAL), Cortex (CTXC), PowerPool (CVP), Convex Finance (CVX), Dock (DOCK), Kava Lend (HARD), IRISnet (IRIS), MovieBloc (MBL), Polkastarte (POLS), Status (SNT), Sun (SUN). The tokens that have been removed from the tag are Enzyme (MLN) and Horizon (ZEN).

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SEC on Friday sued Consensys in federal court in Brooklyn, New York, over allegations that the company “engaged in the offer and sale of securities” and “acted as an unregistered broker” through MetaMask. “Consensys violated the federal securities laws by failing to register as a broker and failing to register the offer and sale of certain securities,” the court filing alleges.

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Coinbase announced a partnership with Stripe, Stripe is adding USDC to its crypto payment products and adding USDC on Base to its fiat-to-crypto onramp. Coinbase will add Stripe's fiat-to-crypto onramp to Coinbase Wallet to allow users to instantly buy cryptocurrencies with credit cards and Apple Pay

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VanEck announced the first application for Solana spot ETF in the United States. VanEck said that Solana is a commodity that provides a better user experience than Ethereum. In 2021, Grayscale launched the Solana Trust Fund, which is aimed at institutional investors and high net worth investors.

Any portion of the Trust's SOL will not be used to earn staking rewards, to earn additional SOL or to generate income or other earnings.

However, SOL faces some difficulties in applying for a spot ETF. For example, it does not have a futures ETF like Bitcoin and Ethereum. In addition, the SEC once ruled that SOL is a security, causing Robinhood to delist SOL.

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Bloomberg ETF analyst Eric Balchunas: We will see a bunch of amended ETH ETF S-1s filed today, or maybe later this afternoon. Then ball's in SEC's court to let issuers know about any final changes and effectiveness (final approval). We holding the line with July 2nd as our over/under for ETH ETFs launch date.

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